false 6566679 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it-s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she-s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord-s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane-s cosmically unstable dentist.

When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn-t care enough to act like he didn-t do it, the question becomes just how he-ll clear the good name he never had and doesn-t particularly want: his own.

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I kept hoping the main character would get hit by a truck o...more...]]> 57402024 2256932 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 3 1 false Mon Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 26 13:46:25 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 13:47:40 -0700 2009
When writing a book, it is fundamentally essential for the author to make his/her protagonist at least superficially likeable--or interesting. No need to thank me.

Reading APATHY AND OTHER SMALL VICTORIES is akin to swallowing air. Nada. Granted, Neilan's bizarr...more...]]> 71247235 2380118 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 4 0 false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 20:31:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 10:37:42 -0700 2009 Shane is the main character in the book filled with a bunch on unstable people. There's his c...more...]]> 75998698 2886662 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 0 1 false Wed Oct 28 08:11:22 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 10 14:34:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 19447631 1050213 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 04 10:08:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 10:14:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 61971860 1857329 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 3 0 false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 19:50:42 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:31:09 -0700 2009
This cynical satire could best be described as a bag full of entertaining hate. Paul Neilan is clearly a man who has had some interesting experiences in his young corporate life. The story is loosely based on Shane, a temp with a...more...]]> 36150286 1654031 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 4 1 false Fri Oct 24 20:09:51 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 20:11:35 -0700 2008 41171591 1840534 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 07:46:52 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 22:46:41 -0800 2009
First, the down-sides. Our protagonist is an incredibly unor...more...]]> 42355766 1683917 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 3 0 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 09:30:32 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:55:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 61777521 2474525 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 11:08:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:32:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41715322 15241 807047 0312352190 9780312352196 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893m/807047.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893s/807047.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807047.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 179
When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own. ]]> 2006 4 0 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 08:53:04 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 09:05:48 -0800 2009
So incredibly funny. My roomate recommended this over a month ago and I finally got around to reading it.

Three things make this book worth reading:

-Again, the laughs. Hours of entertainment.

-This protagonist is sort of on par with Ignatius Reill...more...]]> 77682816 142816 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 1 0 false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 14:25:56 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 20:22:41 -0800 2009 A Confederacy of Dunces. However, I ended up not liking the book one bit.

The characters were flat. The plot was unbelievable. The ending tied everyth...more...]]> 40040848 1800903 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 2 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 18:08:08 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 08:16:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 64989378 2120399 97084 0312351747 9780312351748 201 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276m/97084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171369276s/97084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982 2006 2 0 false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 06:10:08 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 17 14:05:52 -0800 2009 Something that is both fascinating and the source of some of the more disturbingly absurdist moments is the way the ...more...]]> 61051400 2408325 6566679 3 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6566679-apathy-and-other-small-victories 3.50 4 The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it-s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she-s his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord-s wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane-s cosmically unstable dentist.

When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn-t care enough to act like he didn-t do it, the question becomes just how he-ll clear the good name he never had and doesn-t particularly want: his own.

]]> 2006 3 0 false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 07:29:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 08:31:54 -0700 2009 1
What it is, however, is a book about a loser.

I was recommended this book through this comic strip: Unshelved...which pretty much sums it all up. The look on people's faces when I tried...more...]]> 34157022 1277962 807047 0312352190 9780312352196 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893m/807047.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893s/807047.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807047.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982
When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own. ]]> 2006 3 0 false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 17:03:45 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 25 14:00:27 -0800 2008
Paul Neilan writes in an incredibly observant way,...more...]]> 10703858 572228 807047 0312352190 9780312352196 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893m/807047.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178567893s/807047.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807047.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories 3.82 982
When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own. ]]> 2006 4 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 13:34:50 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 13:46:07 -0800 2007
The capsule on the cover saying if Buko...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6566679